I play on ACR sometimes so it was good to see some action from there. I enjoyed this video.
As for 9c 7c hand which started on around the 6:00 minute mark, my impression as I was watching was that this is an easy river call, not a raise. Simply for the reason that you wouldn't be beating enough of his non-folding range. Also, an easy river fold to the three-bet, as it seems he is never bluffing enough to make it a call. That is probably a big weakness in my game - that I don't consider going for thin value enough, and that I make snap decisions without much thought process. Maybe this is due to my constant multitabling years ago; I can't seem to break my habit of making instant decisions, usually fairly accurately, but not enough deep analysis in my actions. If you have any tips on how I can learn a better thought process, I am always open to that! Thanks.
hey man,
regarding the 97 hand: if he would have bet bigger there, id definitely have just called. In general, the smaller the sizings of our opponents, the more we want to expand our raising range (unless we have a super capped range by that point we face the bet), both value and bluffs. The smaller the sizing, the thinner i go for value and therefore will also find more bluffs to add. It was still a thin value raise for sure, but I think vs that sizing both in theory and also actuality its justified.
After the all in it was tough, but also mainly due to the fact that I dont know players well on acr. I think you are right that vs most players it will end up being an easy fold, despite what theory says because they will not bluff enough there. But yes I still always like to take my time to think things through in many spots, I try to find logic flaws and sizing tells in the lines and bets the players took to see if i can draw conclusions from that and exclude certain hands narrow their ranges down from an exploitative point of view.
So this leads to your point of taking time during the hands and not autopiloting: In my early years I used to have a friend in poker who always asked me why Im using my timebank so muhc and that i end up being with almost no time left mid way through the tournament. That is not ideal, I was thinking alot even in considered "standard" spots. But what I did there is train myself to not autopilot.
It sounds like you are already playing less tables which is what i would suggest as step one, depending on buy in level some more volume can make sense but even for lower buy ins and even back in the day I always used to take a week or two where i went from playing 12-20 tables down to 4-6 tables. These days during a normal week 4-6 tables are my standard, sundays its tough to play less than 9 tables at least early in the day.
As step two I say you just make a conscious effort during as many bigger pots as possible to take your time for each decision and actually run the hand and sizings of your opponent through in your head from preflop to the point in the hand and of the decision making. Basically do what I described above, try to see if opponent's line and his sizings are in alliance with each other and all of the range that he is representing. Sometimes a line represents a certain range, but you can find a spot at one point in the hand where he used a sizing that makes a portion of that range way less likely (this is based on experience of the general player population. Observation of course is very high up in our list of effective tools to start with). This in my game is a very important practice to this day and I believe is one that is responsible for alot of my ev.
To get in the habit of that, I would also recommend taking the time and letting things sink in during some bigger pots even if the case seems obvious. Just take a few seconds think it all through.
Also on that topic from a broader perspective I can very much recommend either the talks of jiddu krishnamurti which are to be found on youtube. Or his book "freedom from the known". I mentioned him several times in my videos already but still to this day I feel like he has been challenging me the most and made me stronger in alot of mental areas.
hey man, you are right I dont raise those of course, it would be J8 and 99 only yes. I did do a pio study in the next video for this spot, it will be somewhat flawed since its 3 handed on the pot and its simulating heads up. Still i really wanted to get some kind of data on this.
Im getting into monker solver soon too many multi way spots to analyze this would be one of those that would be great for that for sure.
I think in the pio sim 99 ended up being a call and im not sure about 97 anymore actually
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This format with a single live table and a replayer screen is really good as you were able to make your analyses thorough. Thank you.
Hi, thank you for the feedback on that, after next video there are two or three videos with more tables that i already produced.
I play on ACR sometimes so it was good to see some action from there. I enjoyed this video.
As for 9c 7c hand which started on around the 6:00 minute mark, my impression as I was watching was that this is an easy river call, not a raise. Simply for the reason that you wouldn't be beating enough of his non-folding range. Also, an easy river fold to the three-bet, as it seems he is never bluffing enough to make it a call. That is probably a big weakness in my game - that I don't consider going for thin value enough, and that I make snap decisions without much thought process. Maybe this is due to my constant multitabling years ago; I can't seem to break my habit of making instant decisions, usually fairly accurately, but not enough deep analysis in my actions. If you have any tips on how I can learn a better thought process, I am always open to that! Thanks.
hey man,
regarding the 97 hand: if he would have bet bigger there, id definitely have just called. In general, the smaller the sizings of our opponents, the more we want to expand our raising range (unless we have a super capped range by that point we face the bet), both value and bluffs. The smaller the sizing, the thinner i go for value and therefore will also find more bluffs to add. It was still a thin value raise for sure, but I think vs that sizing both in theory and also actuality its justified.
After the all in it was tough, but also mainly due to the fact that I dont know players well on acr. I think you are right that vs most players it will end up being an easy fold, despite what theory says because they will not bluff enough there. But yes I still always like to take my time to think things through in many spots, I try to find logic flaws and sizing tells in the lines and bets the players took to see if i can draw conclusions from that and exclude certain hands narrow their ranges down from an exploitative point of view.
So this leads to your point of taking time during the hands and not autopiloting: In my early years I used to have a friend in poker who always asked me why Im using my timebank so muhc and that i end up being with almost no time left mid way through the tournament. That is not ideal, I was thinking alot even in considered "standard" spots. But what I did there is train myself to not autopilot.
It sounds like you are already playing less tables which is what i would suggest as step one, depending on buy in level some more volume can make sense but even for lower buy ins and even back in the day I always used to take a week or two where i went from playing 12-20 tables down to 4-6 tables. These days during a normal week 4-6 tables are my standard, sundays its tough to play less than 9 tables at least early in the day.
As step two I say you just make a conscious effort during as many bigger pots as possible to take your time for each decision and actually run the hand and sizings of your opponent through in your head from preflop to the point in the hand and of the decision making. Basically do what I described above, try to see if opponent's line and his sizings are in alliance with each other and all of the range that he is representing. Sometimes a line represents a certain range, but you can find a spot at one point in the hand where he used a sizing that makes a portion of that range way less likely (this is based on experience of the general player population. Observation of course is very high up in our list of effective tools to start with). This in my game is a very important practice to this day and I believe is one that is responsible for alot of my ev.
To get in the habit of that, I would also recommend taking the time and letting things sink in during some bigger pots even if the case seems obvious. Just take a few seconds think it all through.
Also on that topic from a broader perspective I can very much recommend either the talks of jiddu krishnamurti which are to be found on youtube. Or his book "freedom from the known". I mentioned him several times in my videos already but still to this day I feel like he has been challenging me the most and made me stronger in alot of mental areas.
Thanks for the timely and detailed answer!! This is very helpful.
on 97cc you mention youd rather call the shove wit J10 or J9 but I don't think you would raise those on river right? So maybe 99 is your only call?
hey man, you are right I dont raise those of course, it would be J8 and 99 only yes. I did do a pio study in the next video for this spot, it will be somewhat flawed since its 3 handed on the pot and its simulating heads up. Still i really wanted to get some kind of data on this.
Im getting into monker solver soon too many multi way spots to analyze this would be one of those that would be great for that for sure.
I think in the pio sim 99 ended up being a call and im not sure about 97 anymore actually
cool man looking forward to it, I like your videos!
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